Arionne Alyssa Nettles
Professional Storyteller
Professional Storyteller
Arionne Nettles is a professor, culture reporter, and audio aficionado who serves as the Garth C. Reeves Eminent Scholar chair and instructor for digital journalism at Florida A&M University. As a journalist, her stories often look into Chicago history, culture, gun violence, policing, and race & class disparities, and her work has appeared in the New York Times Opinion, Chicago Reader, The Trace, WTTW, and WBEZ. She is the author of We Are the Culture: Black Chicago’s Influence on Everything, published by Lawrence Hill Books/Chicago Review Press.
A look at my recent work and projects
For eight months, I interviewed women from around the United States, including a mix of mothers who have lost kids to violence, mothers whose kids have been injured by bullets, and mothers who have not experienced either of those but who worry about it constantly and are trying to keep their kids safe.
The project was co-published with New York Times Opinion, The Trace, Flint Beat, MLK50: Justice Through Journalism, and The Oaklandside.
